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Definition of necessarian in US English:

necessarian

noun & adjective

‘The necessarian on the contrary employs real antecedents, and has a right to expect real effects.’

‘Huxley, biased by physical science, took at one time the extreme necessarian view.’

‘Fatalists, necessarians, and determinists answer ‘Yes’ to this question.’

‘He asserted free will and preferred to call himself a necessarian, holding a doctrine that directly links causes to their effects and presumes that the same mechanical laws that worked in the physical order also worked in the human.’

‘Hence it appears that the most instructed peasant or artisan is practically a necessarian.’

‘He embraced Hartley's theory of association carrying with it the necessarian doctrine and in 1754 became a scientific determinist.’

‘Stevens and Whorf were necessarians of imagination.’

‘In his public theological pronouncements Gaskell adopted a position between the necessarian Unitarianism of his forbear Joseph Priestley and the free-will transcendentalism of his contemporary James Martineau.’

‘Most of the French Philosophers were necessarians, but Holbach expressed the doctrine in a more extreme form than the others.’